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mad men predictions for 1965 - chuckles Aug 9, 12:23 7
- didn't they already - Reagen Aug 9, 12:24 2
  - i guess more in terms of the writing being on the wall, societally, that the old way of advertising is over - chuckles Aug 9, 12:27 1
    - I think he can - amoxy Aug 9, 12:28
- Feb 21 - Malcolm X assassinated in Manhattan -- nm - Max Aug 9, 12:24 2
  - if they didn't deal with the Beatles in NYC, i'm not sure they would get into this -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 12:26 1
    - Yeah the only Beatles thing (spoilers) - amoxy Aug 9, 12:26
- ? (this is a poll for the people who watch) -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 12:23
And the hits just keep on coming...Buckhalter worse than first thought - Jim Aug 9, 12:09 11
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  - Kolby Smith was dumped when we signed LenDale. We suck. -- nm - Jim Aug 9, 12:15 4
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      - Dude...did you forget Bruce Hall?? -- nm - Jim Aug 9, 12:22 1
        
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  - Convert Tebow to running back. -- nm - Dano Aug 9, 12:11 4
    - *SPLOOGE* -- nm - ESPN Aug 9, 12:12
    - that's Friar Tebow. -- nm - decline Aug 9, 12:11 2
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        He seems to be a good guy. Another example of displaced anger at the media spilling onto an individual. -- nm - Dano Aug 9, 12:14
So, I don't know exactly what broke at my house to send water gushing into the floor. It looks like a plastic tube section. Maybe a pressure filter? - Qale Aug 9, 12:05
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- Such a fun game. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 9, 12:16
- I am (spoilers) - crash davis Aug 9, 12:08 11
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    - yeah, I've had Zaeed for quite a while now, but I hardly ever use him....my big breakthrough Sat. was figuring out how to put Miranda in black leather - crash davis Aug 9, 12:14 9
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        oh, and Darcy thinks I'm horrible because I romanced Ensign Williams just so she would feed my fish -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:22 2
        
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        now that is just cool -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:27
        
        I've got all the ship upgrades, I've upgraded the sniper rifle all the way, and the assault rifle, but things like the shotgun, SMG, and pistol are - crash davis Aug 9, 12:18 2
        
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        I'm in total agreement there -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:23
      - Wait until you (spoiler) - Guigue Aug 9, 12:16 1
        
        That is a definite goal for my gameplay :) -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:18
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id watch a buddy cop movie starring workamanda and crash davis. - Remlik on the 'droid Aug 9, 11:59 10
- She is no nonsense like Kima Greggs, and I'm a supercop ala Jimmy McNulty -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:05 6
  - Why is it that I see you more like Dan Stark? -- nm - Jim Aug 9, 12:07 3
    - I mentioned what you said to Trish, she sees me as Dan Stark as well -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:28
    - "You get to not touch a woman and get some typing in. There's two of my least favourite things right there." -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 12:09
    - that might be more accurate, but I wouldn't admit to it :) -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:09
  - and both with a passion for cake -- nm - Remlik on the 'droid Aug 9, 12:07 1
    - last night we rewatched the Season One episode with the five minute sequence of using only one word for dialogue -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:09
- "Flake and the Catman" -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 12:04
- Sounds more like thelma and louise -- nm - budice Aug 9, 12:00 1
  - or the non-union mexican knockoff equivalent, Velma and Ruiz -- nm - Beryllium Aug 9, 12:01
Weekend movie poll: Mrs. Henderson Presents, A. -- nm - mara Aug 9, 11:58 22
- I don't know if we watched a movie. I did beat Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes. - Callisto Aug 9, 12:04 2
  - And I beat Puzzle Quest. Suck it, Lord Bane! -- nm - David Aug 9, 12:08 1
    - SheFox's all-time favorite DS game. -- nm - TFox Aug 9, 12:16
- First 5 episodes of Sports Night....B- - Will Hunting Aug 9, 12:02
- Step Up 3D: hard to grade because the movie is bad but the dance numbers are great (B+) -- nm - Dano Aug 9, 12:02
- Zombieland - A, The Blind Side (which we ended up watching twice over the weekend) A/A+, Daybreakers - B- -- nm - Stephen (Status Seeker) Aug 9, 12:02
- In the Loop: **** -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 12:02
- Up in the Air (A-), 28 Weeks later (B-) -- nm - amoxy Aug 9, 12:00
- Inception - B - marcel Aug 9, 12:00
- Green Zone B -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:00 2
  - this one was *supposed* to have arrived on friday, but it failed to emerge from the postal box. Maybe today ... -- nm - Beryllium Aug 9, 12:01
  - maybe B- for preachiness and too many action sequences in the dark -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:01
- *struggling to remember if I watched a movie this weekend* ... last one I remember seeing was Star Trek: First Contact. A. - Beryllium Aug 9, 11:59 1
  - Yes to your IM and I think it is neck and neck with Wrath of Khan as best Star Trek Movie -- nm - amoxy Aug 9, 12:27
- Bounty Hunter: fell asleep. After.Life: Ricci is on a path to become an anorexic porn actress. -- nm - Max Aug 9, 11:58
- Jackie Brown: B+; Sophie's Choice: C+ -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 11:58 5
  - "Meryl Streep could play Batman and be the right choice" -- nm - prayformojo Aug 9, 12:00 1
    - she was fantastic as advertised but the love triangle stuff was a bunch of melodramatic Tennessee Williamsish hokum -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 12:01
  - 500 Days of Summer rewatch: still a B (maybe a B-) -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 12:00 2
    - B+ -- nm - Max Aug 9, 12:00 1
      - C. maybe C-. -- nm - workmanda Aug 9, 12:05
- WALL-E (B), Law Abiding Citizen (C-) -- nm - Don Homer Aug 9, 11:58
ST Poll: Have you ever lost a phone? - oblique Aug 9, 11:52 48
- no. -- nm - loosilu Aug 9, 12:27
- not for long - slid under seat in car, etc.; but that's it. -- nm - b. Aug 9, 12:23
- left one on a cha-cha van into town. Very nice driver got it back to me. -- nm - Diva Aug 9, 12:17 3
  - cha-cha? -- nm - Don Homer Aug 9, 12:18 2
    - there are these vans that drive in and out of manhattan to towns in nj. The drivers are mostly Arab but they all speak Spanish and English - Diva Aug 9, 12:21 1
      - Huh. Interesting. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 9, 12:23
- Nope. -- nm - Krusty Aug 9, 12:10
- No, the only times I thought I did it was between the car seat and the car door. -- nm - Spawn Aug 9, 12:08 1
  - idiot -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 12:12
- I had one stolen and left one in an airport security checkpoint (ask me about that book I'm not writing!). -- nm - workmanda Aug 9, 12:05
- About once a year. Before I broke my last phone I had lost it once in anoter building at work, and left it in a Barnes & Noble in another state. -- nm - Ender Aug 9, 12:01 1
  - Then there was the one I lost under my bed, and the one that got stolen off my desk at work (does that count?)... -- nm - Ender Aug 9, 12:19
- yes, left it in the train from Prague to Dresden.The train continued to Kopenhagen - marcel Aug 9, 11:59
- Left behind and retrieved within an hour, yes. Lost, no. -- nm - mara Aug 9, 11:58
- had destroyed yes, lost like where is it? no. -- nm - Qale Aug 9, 11:57
- i've only owned two cell phones and i still have both of them -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 11:57 2
  - and when you walk around Hollywood with that one the size of a brick, everyone says "Look at the hipster being retro! He is so ironically cool!" -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 11:58 1
    - nah, it's a crappy flip phone i got six years ago. i know it's lame but i almost never use it -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 11:59
- i have *wrecked* a phone, but never lost one. -- nm - Andie Aug 9, 11:56
- I knows, our CEO had an interesting experience with a Blackberry - budice Aug 9, 11:55
- not lost so much as "drove over". -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 11:55 6
  - I found out the hard way that I had a Motorola that could withstand a Ford Ranger - crash davis Aug 9, 11:56 3
    - mine still worked, kinda - Reagen Aug 9, 12:01 1
      - mine worked, I just had to ignore the cracked screen - it cracked the plastic but didn't mess up the LCD display -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 12:06
    - ah, good old Ford Ranger ... the token white basketball player of pickup trucks -- nm - Beryllium Aug 9, 11:57
  - And replace "phone" with "son"?? -- nm - Don Homer Aug 9, 11:55 1
    - *calls David Crosby* -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 11:56
- lost one: no... - Mel Profit Aug 9, 11:54 5
  - oh, in that case I've lost one to a baby's mouth -- nm - Max Aug 9, 11:58
  - you swim? -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 11:56
  - *bursting with rage* -- nm - tim mie si Aug 9, 11:56 2
    - he really was unhinged by that, huh? -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 9, 12:05 1
      - it was quite the monologue. -- nm - Diva Aug 9, 12:15
- Yes, I "lost" several to the bay/ocean and one to a bilge. - Stephen (Status Seeker) Aug 9, 11:54
- I dropped an early model on a walking trail around a lake, some folks found it and called the house number I wrote on the battery - zeitgeist Aug 9, 11:54 1
  - of course it does help that you can call your own number and listen for the ringing to find it in the house or car, otherwise it would have been loosi - zeitgeist Aug 9, 11:58
- As far as I can remember I've only lost one important thing over the years (glasses). I'll 'lose' stuff for a week but always find it. -- nm - Max Aug 9, 11:54 1
  - (and sanity.) -- nm - b. Aug 9, 12:24
- Nope. *knocks on fake wood desk* -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 9, 11:53
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- Yep. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 9, 11:53
- nope. i still have the first cellphone i ever got....nm - xi Aug 9, 11:53 3
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    - my V3c worked fine ... -- nm - Beryllium Aug 9, 11:55
  - Does it look like this? -- (link) - oblique Aug 9, 11:54 [Image]
- Not yet. I did get out of a car once (and it was on the seat and fell out) and I noticed a few minutes later and went back and found it. - JaxSean Aug 9, 11:53 1
  - I did that but couldn't find the right spot (side of a country highway), so yes I have lost one. -- nm - zork Aug 9, 11:55
- no -- nm - peglegpete Aug 9, 11:53
pfft -- nm - Tyson Gay Aug 9, 11:50 3
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- COME ON, REID! -- nm - colby si Aug 9, 11:51
- dammit, this was supposed to go under the bolt zoom zoom post -- nm - zork Aug 9, 11:51
they should give you a gift certificate for a free meal at Volt with every Chevy Volt sold -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 11:50
that girl from Bitchin' Kitchin is awesome. The other day I saw her make a MacIntosh Maple Crumble with Candied Bacon. - zork Aug 9, 11:50
Was the basis of the Prop 8 ruling the US Constitution? Could it ultimately affect other states? -- nm - Dano Aug 9, 11:49 10
- yes and yes -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 11:49 9
  - It would be priceless if the rush to take away a right in CA ultimately struck down laws in other states that weren't really being challenged. -- nm - Dano Aug 9, 11:52 8
    - I'm sure there have been challenges in other states though; so presumably Prop 8 in CA wouldn't be the only way to get to the Supreme Court. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 9, 11:57 2
      - i think California is the only state so far that has ruled on the federal question -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 12:02 1
        
        oh. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 9, 12:03
    - gays are always coming in the back door. -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 11:54 1
      - I hope they're using protection. -- nm - Qale Aug 9, 11:58
    - that is the risk the pro-Prop 8 side is going to run if they continue on -- nm - crash davis Aug 9, 11:54 2
      - Though technically right now (pending appeal) aren't all anti-same sex marriage laws deemed unconstitutional? Is that the current legal status? -- nm - Dano Aug 9, 12:00 1
        
        only in the Ninth Circuit, if upheld on appeal -- nm - chuckles Aug 9, 12:05
Today is 8/9/10. did anything significant happen at 11:12? -- nm - JaxSean Aug 9, 11:49 10
- probably not much more than at 5:06:07 this morning -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 9, 11:55
- we briefly popped in and out of existance and were replaced by doppelgangers - Reagen Aug 9, 11:51 2
  - I'm pretty sure you all exist to fully round out my reality anyway. When you're not here, you don't exist. - JaxSean Aug 9, 11:54
  - doppelgangers? is that some sort of swingers' club? -- nm - jaxsean SI Aug 9, 11:52
- How about at 05:06:07 this morning? -- nm - Jim Aug 9, 11:50 3
  - 07:06:05 next month (10-09-08) makes more sense -- nm - zork Aug 9, 11:53
  - I was sleeping (so, yes. It's rare these days that I get to sleep. :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 9, 11:50
  - ooh, good point. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 9, 11:50
- not that I know of -- nm - Beryllium Aug 9, 11:49 1
  - (yet) -- nm - JaxSean Aug 9, 11:50
i would have through the PB&J was convenience-proof. -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 11:48 2
- more than one person here has said they have purchased/enjoyed those uncrustables (for one, at least, it wasn't pb, though). shun them! - b. Aug 9, 12:22
- coming soon: Boiled Water in a Bag - chuckles Aug 9, 11:49
Bolt...zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Aug 9, 11:47 3
- LET IT BEGIN! LET IT BEGINNN!!! -- nm - HiaB Aug 9, 11:47 2
  - The kids were watching it in the car this weekend to/from Chicago. It surprised me how fun it was to listen to and how much I still really like it -- nm - oblique Aug 9, 11:49 1
    - i enjoyed it a lot. -- nm - Diva Aug 9, 11:57

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